[Election-Methods] Partisan Politics

[Fred Gohlke]

Good Afternoon, Steve

The press denigrates those unable to form large coalitions as fringe or 
radical groups, drowning their voices.  Yet, their ideas can not be 
judged good or bad until they are considered rationally.  That is not 
possible in a world dominated by media manipulation.  Ideas each of us 
would weigh carefully, if presented to us individually, become anathema 
to the public when disparaged by opinion-makers.

In the face of that circumstance, which will not change, we must raise 
people capable of weighing ideas from a public perspective to positions 
of leadership in our government.  That means we must examine candidates 
more carefully; a capability denied us by mass-merchandising electoral 
methods.

Fred